Land Surveying is my profession. I have been surveying since I was about 12 years old. My father has owned a surveying/engineering firm for over 30 years (1972).
A few years after I obtained my professional land surveying license I came back to work for my dad. I now run the surveying portion of the business and my father designs engineering projects.
This is our John Deere Gator
It is a 6 wheel - 4 wheel drive ATV with a large cargo space which can be tilted by use of a hand lever positioned behind the drivers seat.
By lifting the bed, you can more easily access the motor, etc. The motor is gas powered with an approximately 6 gallon tank underneath the front seats.
As stated above, this Gator has 6 wheels; the four rear wheels provide the propulsion and the front 2 wheels provide the steering. On one particularly bad project, we sustained no less than 4 flats on the gator and 5 more on my Dodge Ram pickup.
During that project I filled all the tires with green goop. A compound made for farm vehicles. It is truly a good product. I also got insurance on the Dodge tires after the second flat...... the next three cost truck tire replacements only us 20 bucks total.
This is an old style Transit.
The model used for this 3D ACAD rendering was a 1 minute David White Transit circa 1960.
This is a Pincushion corner.
The original corner is most probably the 1" pipe. An expert measurer came along and placed a new 1/2" Iron Rod with his companies plastic cap at the plat distance from another pipe he had located on the other side of the same lot. A 64' wide lot at the front and rear.
The other pipe is now gone, but he came back later and placed another of his irons and caps at the location where the pipe once was.
Later still another surveyor came along and surveyed the lot next door and decide both the pipe and rod were a little off. So he placed his 3/8" rod between them, another expert measurer. In this picture, I covered the yellow cap with the toe of my boot in order to protect the identity of the guilty expert capped rod setter.
Another Pin Cushion
The monument most likely to be the original corner is the 1" pipe. An expert measurer came along and placed a new 1/2" Iron Rod at the plat distance from another pipe he had located on the opposite end and the other side of the same lot. A 64' wide by 150' deep lot.
I will be holding the pipes and a Buggy Axle and Triangle shaped rod I found at the end of the Block. Both of them were over a foot deep and seemed to have never been disturbed by mankind since the day they were set. I cant proove they are original corners, but no one sets buggy Axles these days.
Pin Cushion additiona info
The tape shows the distance measured from a 1/2" rod found on the South side of the 15 foot alleay. The tape also shows the size of the pipe being 1" OD.
a 1" Steel Rod set in dry creek bed
The rod is 1" diameter and 4' long. It was set for a project involving a dispute over boundary lines. The rod is near the middle of a dry creek bed, hence my using a thicker and longer monument. I stamped our company initials (JCI) and my Dad's RPLS number and a center hole punch on the rod for identification purposes.
Terrain map of the area
Map of the terrain and route the adventuring party is taking.
